Protecting the Information Commons:
Asserting the Public Interest In Copyright Law and Digital Infrastructure
Event
Sweeping changes triggered by digital technologies have raised questions about how to understand the public interest in copyright law and digital infrastructure. Join us for a one-day conference, Protecting the Information Commons, which will include the release of several major reports and explore some key questions: How is the public domain being threatened by new technologies and copyright law? What are the implications of current patent policies and digital innovations for science and the public domain? How might the public's airwaves be used in more equitable and efficient ways? And what creative initiatives and public interest agenda can strengthen the information commons?
Location
National Guard Association
One Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC, 20001
Participants
- Yochai Benkler
Professor, New York University School of Law - Rick Boucher
U.S. Representative (D-VA) - Michael Calabrese
Vice President and Co-Director, Retirement Security Program, New America Foundation - Lawrence K. Grossman
Co-Chair, Digital Promise and Former President, NBC News and Public Broadcasting Service - Reed Hundt
Senior Advisor, McKinsey and Co. and former Chair, Federal Communications Commission - Karen Kornbluh
Director, Work and Family Program, New America Foundation - Bruce Perens
Senior Strategist, Hewlett Packard - Arti Rai
Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Clay Shirky
Consultant, O'Reilly Network - Seth Shulman
Author & Journalist Technology Review - Gigi B Sohn
President, Public Knowledge - Peter Suber
Professor, Earlham College - Siva Vaidhyanathan
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Molly Van Houweling
Executive Director, Creative Commons - Jennifer Washburn
Fellow, New America Foundation - Tim Watts
Director, OzProspect